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Author Name: Kata Beilin Publisher: Tamesis: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Publication Year: 2004 A book of essays and literary conversations with Juan José Millás, José María Merino, Enrique Vila-Matas, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Pedro Zarraluki, Ray Lóriga and Ricardo Piglia. The conversations are focused on the philosophical and ethical themes in the narrative of the 80s and …
Author Name: Ksenija Bilbija Publisher: Feminaria Publication Year: 2003 Ensayos sobre los libros Cambio de armas, Realidad nacional desde la cama, Novela negra con argentinos, La travesía y una conversación/entrevista exhaustiva con Luisa Valenzuela sobre su obra.
Link to Book Author Name: Ksenija Bilbija Publisher: Lima: Latinoamericana Editore Publication Year: 2001 This volume offers a gender sensitive reading of XX century Latin American narrative texts built around a metaphor of man-made, man-like creature: Horacio Quiroga “El hombre artificial”, Borges “Las ruínas circulares”, Felisberto Hernández “Las Hortensias”, José Donoso “Chatanooga Choochoo” and Rosario …
Link to Book Author Name: Rubén Medina Publisher: El Colegio de México Publication Year: 1999 La obra de Octavio Paz, múltiple en géneros y temas, que se nutre de experimentos poéticos durante más de seis décadas, es al mismo tiempo ensimismada y abierta al presente. En la poesía de Paz se encuentra la preocupación por …
Link to Book Author Name: Severino J. Albuquerque Publisher: Detroit: Wayne State University Press Publication Year: 1991 Violent Acts explores the successful fusion of sociopolitical commitment with verbal and non-verbal expression found in Latin American theatre of the sixties, seventies, and eighties.
This highly selective award recognizes top-notch TAs across the College of Letters & Science, who serve as instructors during the fall training for incoming TAs. Congratulations, Mark, you have made the department very proud!
Through Professor Marcelo Pellegrini‘s new course, Spanish 468: Soccer? ¿Fúbol? The Beautiful Game, the UW–Madison associate professor of Spanish is transferring his childhood passion to the classroom. He’s challenging students to better understand Latin American history and culture through the lens of soccer, all while sharpening their Spanish language skills.
Marcos Antonio Colón presented one of two winning essays about Brazil, winning a lump-sum cash award of $2000 for a research trip to Brazil. His project, “Seeing Amazônia Slowly: Its Connection with Beyond Fordlândia” deals with the Brazilian rubber boom, which caused a profound change in the 19th century Amazonian economy and landscape. The Brazil …
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is delighted to announce this year’s Marsha Gray Ehrlich Scholarship Fund recipients. Marsha Gray Ehrlich was a former graduate student in our Department, and an inspirational teacher during her long professional career. She received a Master of Arts, with a major in Spanish, on August 17, 1968. She carried …
The Linguistics Faculty of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese are very pleased to announce this year’s Ray Harris Hispanic Linguistics Award recipient is Luis Fernando Vázquez. The original donors established the award in order to “recognize outstanding graduate students in or entering the MA or PhD program in Hispanic linguistics in the Department of …